IFAD says livestock production and consumption will help in Malawi and beyond
07/11/2017
Climate change’s impacts on agriculture is beyond dispute for IFAD, but it says in the new report that giving communities access to high-quality nutrition, including meat, is an important part of addressing the problem because the impacts of climate change and malnutrition in rural areas are “deeply intertwined, it says.
On introducing the report, IFAD president, Gilbert Houngbo, said: “What we eat depends on what can be grown on land facing degradation and in a changing climate. And what we eat conditions the land and the climate. This is why we need to accelerate our work and learn how to address both better.”
In the report itself, the IFAD quotes the example of low consumption of meat in Malawi, which it says has one of the highest rates of child malnutrition in Africa. One recommendation in the study is to improve integrated homestead gardens in Malawi “by increasing livestock production and consumption where possible”.
The report makes similar recommendations in other examples it quotes, including the situation in Mauritania, Nepal and in Bolivia.
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